Princeton’s cheap, empty virtue-signaling may prove very expensive

Published September 23, 2020 4:00am ET



Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber has gotten himself into a bit of a bind, as the Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe first reported. Earlier this month, he released an open letter filled with unsubstantiated claims that he runs an institution imbued with systemic racism.

Eisgruber wrote that “racism and the damage it does to people of color persist at Princeton.” He further asserted that “racist assumptions” are “embedded in structures of the University itself.”

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